[Bug 1455684] Re: Enhancing the behavior that 1 package gets automatically installed

[Julian Andres Klode]

When removing a package have to be careful: Removing a package is far
more dangerous than installing a new one on average, so we ask the user
if he release wants to remove it.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  Enhancing the behavior that 1 package gets automatically installed

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  I'm using Ubuntu 15.04 with apt 1.0.9.7ubuntu4 and if I'm installing a
  package with "apt-get install" and apt figures out that only 1 package
  needs to be installed apt does install it automatically without asking
  the user. Maybe the behavior should be changed to always ask the user
  because:

  - If "apt-get remove" would remove only 1 package it does ask the user too.
  - apt-get has the option -y which does already skip prompts so automatically implying this in some situations doesn't look consistent.

  
  Personally if I'm using "apt-get install" I want to see first which packages would get installed before I'm making a choice. And as I normally don't know if this would result that only 1 package would get installed apt does install it automatically in this case even if I don't want it.

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